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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2013-02-22 12:36 pm
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Are Babies Born Good?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Are-Babies-Born-Good-183837741.html

Will I be able to close down these month old tags without panicking? These questions, and more, answered soon!

[identity profile] elenbarathi.livejournal.com 2013-03-03 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Wish I had a share of the grant money for every study of the past forty years that's confirmed what I had already observed. Yes, babies are altruistic and cooperative, though not all the time, and all these young child psychologists would be much cannier if they'd worked in the day-care as undergrads.

Poor Tasimi - "barely noticed" the clot of gangstas he walked through till they punched him in the head; second-guessed himself out of paying attention to the teenagers who followed him - it was probably his walking like prey which caught their eye in the first place. If this guy is going to be a behaviorist, he would do well to start focusing on the actual human behavioral environment around him, especially the parts of it that signal Danger.